We have developed this guidebook to provide you with quality information that are responsive to your needs as an investor stepping into the country for the first time. It gives you an overview of the business climate in the Philippines and various reasons why it has remained to be a bright ...
“When people are less-informed, the unscrupulous ones thrive.” I would also like to add the Philippines has set up a very complicated web of confusion when it comes to property transfer, sales, laws, or enforcement of the rules. Those with proper connections have no loopholes to jum...
I have included these countries in my Southeast Asia totals, plus Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and (to the extent I could find the data), amounts for a few other small countries included in the grouping used by the United Nations in its “Southeast Asia” grouping. While...
Despite pervasive challenges to regulate UPF consumption in the face of contemporary corporate power dynamics, a small precedent of success has been set by a handful of countries in the adoption of UPF regulatory policies. Most of these countries are in Latin America, where UPF consumption has gro...
How Trade Policy Is Enacted: Globally, Regionally, and Nationally These public policy arguments about how nations should react to globalization and trade are fought out at several levels: at the global level through the World Trade Organization and through regional trade agreements between pairs or ...
The UK, in particular, was an early incubator for challenger bank activity compared to other regions, as a result of progressive regulations enacted to promote competition and break up monopolies. However, more recently, challenger banks have appeared in other regions around the world, from Australi...
world’s top recipients of remittances. The World Bank estimates thatremittances to Mexico reached $61.1 billion USDin 2022. This has led to the development of specialised payment channels and services to facilitate these transactions, similar to economies such as those in the Philippines or India....
In the Philippines archipelago, for instance, more than half of locales identified in mining applications are in Indigenous areas (Holden et al., 2011). 5.5. Violence and conflict The dispossession of land and livelihoods linked to extractive development has long been accompanied by violent ...
We now understand that institutions come in two forms – formal (e.g., enacted rules, laws, constitutions, regulations, etc.) and informal (e.g., behavioral norms, self-imposed codes of conduct, cultural practices, etc.) – which together define the “rules of the game” in a society ...
Maersk entered Vietnam during 1991 at an early stage of development, when the country had just enacted the Doi Moi economic reform program, it was among the first few container shipping lines to connect Vietnam to international markets and later, in 1995, among the first to introduce more adv...